HARRISBURG (PA)
Fox News
August 15, 2018
As seen on The Story with Martha MacCallum
A man who said he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a retired western Pennsylvania priest spoke out to Martha MacCallum.
The interview came a day after the state attorney general announced a grand jury report on over one thousand similar cases over 70 years.
James Vansickle said he was sexually “groomed” and “attacked” by Father David Poulson when he was a teenager.
Poulson was arrested in March and charged with abusing two boys. He has not entered a plea and waived his right to a preliminary hearing in May.
Vansickle said he had a “long relationship of friendship” and mentorship with Poulson, a priest from Oil City, Pa.
He said that the abuse culminated in a “sexual attack” in a hotel room when he was 16 and traveling with a scholastic chess team.
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